American Politics
A selection of recent articles on this topic
James and Melville, Two American Minds
In this series, the First Things junior fellows share mini-essays on their current reading endeavors. Connor GrubaughAssistant Editor Sociologists…
Prisoners Are Not Animals
Last week, Dr. Lawrence G. Nassar was sentenced to 40–175 years in prison for many counts of…
Tom Cotton and the Raging Infants
Indignant anti-Trump liberals are both bold and scared. On the one hand, they make exaggerated and unpopular…
Eight Theses on Sex
First, sex is searching for God. I purposely put this thesis up front, as number one. Sex…
Taylor Swift, Nazi Barbie?
January is Taylor Swift month in the Green household. If, like me, you have three young daughters,…
Phenomenology of the Hand
If you teach high school or college students, or have kids who are passing through those places,…
To a Certain Controversial Public Personality
Insulting social conventionHas been your stock in trade,But I doubt you’ll be forgivenThe scandal you’ve now made.…
Overheard
Walking on water, i.e., in the streets of Venice,I read its history in churches—Gothic,Baroque and Neoclassical, one…
Mary McCarthy’s Clarity
Catholic readers know the story cold. As a young writer, Flannery O’Connor accompanied Robert Lowell and Elizabeth…
I Know How to Be Abased and I Know How to Abound
I was more ashamed of my Goodwill clothes than of not speaking English when I first came…
Mac Donald, Peterson, Paglia . . . the New Sources
One of our editor-in-chief’s repeated contentions is that the Establishment no longer enjoys the confidence of the…
Cyber Self-Harm
On August 2, 2013, fourteen-year-old Hannah Smith of Leicestershire, England, hanged herself and was found dead by…
Ireland’s Constitutional Crisis
For nearly six years I have been involved in what has seemed a continuous political battle, loosely…
Remembering Zion
I offer a frigid smile any time people go into nostalgic raptures about the benefits of memorizing…
Looking Down syndrome in the Face
Before I met my son Max, I’d never spent much time with anyone who has Down syndrome.…
